Back to the basics Lesson planning & Personal growth for TEFL teachers 潛潛潛潛 Annie Tsai
Back to the basicsLesson planning &
Personal growth for TEFL teachers
潛龍國小 Annie Tsai
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A happy class
I know what I’m doing in this class.
I’m doing my job.
The outline
My philosophy Lesson planning Personal growth
Attention is my most scarce resource
The movie director’s guide to effective teaching - By Victor Stachura
• Learning happens at the beginning and at the end.
From http://www.pickthebrain.com
Having more starting and ending points.
Some routines are as good as a parfume
• Line up chant
• Consistent format
Today is _______.Today’s homework is:1.2.3.
Language is personal
• Make it personal-Improvisation
• Try to make it useful
• Curiosity
Follow the model
Summary
• Make it multi-sensory
• Make it __________
• Make it __________
• Start it __________
dailypersonal
small
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Lesson planning3R
• Review-revise-recycle
• “Give me the question”
• Brainstorming with a teaser
Lesson planningPhysical movement
• Apply videos to recount
• My version of volleyball game/ online stopwatch
• Rhymes to quiet the classroom
Time for a break!
Lesson planning Homework that encourages
thinking• Picture-captions
• Book making- the one/ the easy one
• Help walls
• Who? Where? When?
Making books with children
My Gliffy sample
Help wall
5w1hwho where when what *why *how
leash
collar
blind
WinterWinter cloth- jacket, gloves,
sweater
Lesson planning-Move the roadblocks!
1. 無法分辨 Letter names and letter sounds狗 - 吠2. 不會辨認 / 代換 首音 beginning sounds3. 一個字 ? 一個字母 ? 一個句子 ?4. 沒有標點符號5. 錯誤的習寫習慣6. 不會拼讀 7. 沒有語感 - 英文單字的韻律8. 機械式的習寫9. 沒有先聽再說的習慣10. “ 我沒有學過英文 !”
New way to present phonics
From Sound Linkage
Phoneme counting
From http://www.teachingk-8.com
Lesson planningSummary
• Review, revise, recycle
• Classroom English
• Be observant!
• Anti-rubbish homework
• Move!
Online tools that helps
• Gliffy
• Spellingcity
• ESL podcast
• Youtube
• 5 min
• Miro
My private life
My work life
My professional development
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Learn to be a happy English teacher
• Start from things that interests you
• Authentic language– TED.COM
– www.teachertube.com
– Listen to the movie
Try something new when you feel bored
• New classroom arrangements
• New routine
• New games
• Old games with a new twist
• Write them down
• Share it!
You learn that the more you get good at the basics, the more you can experiment with new ideas.
from Letter to a young teacher